PEAK GOVERNANCE

The Peak was founded in 1965. It became fully autonomous
from the Simon Fraser Student Society (the campus student union) in
1996. Legally, The Peak is published by a corporate entity known as The Peak Publications Society which is a recognized "student society" under the University Act of British Columbia. This allows it to be funded by a student levy collected from all SFU students every semester.

The Peak Publications Society is also a registered "society" under the British Columbia Society Act and subject to all of that Act's regulations.

The Peak has a constitution
which dates to the early 80s, and as the years progressed it was less
and less obeyed — or even consulted, with editors instead preferring to
run The Peak through a series of traditions and conventions that tended to gradually evolve and adapt as
circumstances changed. In the fall of 2014 The Peak began following the rules of a new constitution, which is in the process of legal adoption.

Legally, The Peak is run by its board of directors, whose
seven members are chosen through a variety of always-changing customs
that are only vaguely inspired by the appointment process outlined in
the constitution. In practice, almost all of the positions on the board
of directors are occupied by current or recently-departed section
editors, or other contributors to the paper.

Most day-to-day Peak decision-making is conducted by the editors and the manager(s).

BUSINESS MANAGERS:(position created 1994, merged with advertising manager 2006 onward)

Leslie Smith, 1994-1998

Don Elder, 1998-2003

Stephen Fagan, 2003-2006

Larry Van Kampen, 2006 - October, 2012

David Proctor, October 2012 - January 2014

Maia Britt Odegaard, January 2014 -

EDITORS OF THE PEAK

GENERAL EDITOR:

Sam Steenhuus, 1965

EDITORS IN CHIEF:

Sam Steenhuus, 1965-1966

N. Alan Bell(acting), 1966

Gillian Lindridge, 1966

Bell(2nd time, acting), 1966

Allen Garr, 1966

Michael J. Campbell, 1966-1967

Simon Foulds, 1967

Ronald Nye, 1967

Mayling Weaver, 1967

Bell(3rd time), 1967-1968

Jaan John Pill, 1968

Ed Wong, 1968-1969

Stewart Gold, 1969

Gordon Hardy, 1969

Phil Dubois, 1969-1970

Donn Korbin, 1970

George Keter, 1970

Cameron Beck, 1970-1971

Wilf Wedmann, 1971

COORDINATORS:

Wilf Wedmann, 1971

Mike Mason, 1971

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF:

Ron Verzuh, 1971

Bob Mercer, 1971-1972

Unclear, 1972

Keith McQuiggan, 1972-?

Ron Roth, 1972-?

Unclear, 1973

Frank Rotering, 1973

Unclear, 1973-1977

Marc Edge, ?-1977

Irwin DeVries, 1977

Shane McCune, 1977

Maureen McEvoy, 1977-1978

Lee Rankin, 1978

Jackie Brown, 1978-1979

Trish Webb, 1979

Dean McMillan, 1979-?

Jimmy Tan, ?-1980

Alastair McColl, 1980

Position abolished, 1980-2012

COORDINATING EDITORS:

David Dyck, September 2012 - May 2013

William Ross, May 2013 - December 2013

Alison Roach, January 2014 - September, 2014

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF:

Alison Roach, September, 2014 - May, 2015

Max Hill, May 2015 -

SECTION EDITORS:

ThePeak's system of so-called "section editors"
was established in the fall of 1994. Prior to that, the paper was run
quite differently than it is today, with a copy coordinator, multiple
generic "desk coordinators" and "production managers," and several
other staff, but no real equivalents to the paper's contemporary
content-specific editorial jobs. In 1993 the desk coordinators began to
slowly evolve into editors, and by late 1994 the full transition,
complete with title change, was complete.

Since the section editor system was established, The Peak's
exact number of editors has fluctuated, and the chart below does not
cover the tenures of all editorships (for example, short-lived
positions like web editor or external news editor) or other positions
that may have held editor-like rank at one time (for example, graphics
coordinator or external relations officer). The following chart is
instead a comprehensive chronicle of what can be regarded as The Peak's
"core editorships," that is, the positions which have been consistently
occupied by someone or another, without interruption, for most of the
last 20 years.

Peak editors are elected every semester by and from the Peak "collective,"
which in practice means the assembled editors themselves plus some of
the paper's non-editor writers. In the vast majority of cases,
incumbent editors are always reelected, which has allowed some editors
to serve for quite a long time. The Peak constitution only allows editors to remain on the Peak
staff for a maximum of two semesters after formally leaving SFU,
however, so there is some practical limit to how long anyone can stay.

SFU semester guide:

"Spring"= January through April
"Summer"= May through August"Fall" = September through December

Color guide (length of tenure):

Unknown

1 semester

2 semesters

3 semesters

4 semesters

5 semesters

6+ semesters

*asterisks indicate that a second editor also briefly served during this semester (see below).

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SEMESTER

COPY

PRODUCTION

NEWS

ARTS

OPINIONS

FEATURES

SPORTS

HUMOR

PHOTO

SEMESTER

FALL 1994

Craig Lawson

Kai-Lee Klymchuk

Sophie Leake

Katarina Thorstrand

none

Cherata Yawsen

Kelly Caldwell

none

Mike Dutton

FALL 1994

SPRI 1995

Sophie Leake

Tom Lakovic

*Kris Karlsson

Monique Harvey

Holly Keyes

*Dutton (2nd time)

SPRI 1995

SUMM 1995

Tom Lakovic

Patrik Kolby

Glen Callender

N/A

Keith Tan

SUMM 1995

FALL 1995

Teena Aujla

Craig Lawson

Caldwell (2nd time)

FALL 1995

SPRI 1996

Misha Rainer

SPRI 1996

SUMM 1996

Monique Harvey

Janine Dusoewoir

Dan Dick

Mason Wright

N/A

SUMM 1996

FALL 1996

Guy Leets

Pam Murray

Clea Ainsworth

Patrik Kolby

FALL 1996

SPRI 1997

SPRI 1997

SUMM 1997

Angela Aujla

Guy Letts

N/A

SUMM 1997

FALL 1997

Teena Aujla

Michelle Rainer

Kolby (2nd time)

A. Lee Cheuk Yin

FALL 1997

SPRI 1998

Kris Anderson

Mason Wright

SPRI 1998

SUMM 1999

Bess Lovejoy

N/A

SUMM 1999

FALL 1998

Kris Anderson

Mike Barker

Erin Fitzpatrick

Ryan Roddy

Wright (2nd time)

Saba

FALL 1998

SPRI 1999

Steve Cullingworth

SPRI 1999

SUMM 1999

Erin Fitzpatrick

Mason Wright

Simon Grant

N/A

SUMM 1999

FALL 1999

Sarah Isaacs

Bess Lovejoy

Craig Brown

Glen Callender

Saba (2nd time)

FALL 1999

SPRI 2000

Brooke Larsen

Paul Parker

SPRI 2000

SUMM 2000

Sarah Isaacs

Brent Whitman

Paul Parker

Dee Hon

N/A

Claire Kaufman

SUMM 2000

FALL 2000

Glen Callender

Alexandra Zabjek

Lindsay Nielsen

John Kennedy

Steven Reddy

Josh Byer

FALL 2000

SPRI 2001

Tejpal Swatch

Dee Hon

Josh Byer

Mohammad El Masri

Eric Dodge

Carolyn Duckham

SPRI 2001

SUMM 2001

Lindsay Nielsen

Mason Wright

Jessica Johnston

Mohammed Al Masri

Charlie Demers

Alexander Zabjek

N/A

Ben Pearson

SUMM 2001

FALL 2001

AnniqueElise Goode

Mohammad El Masri

Yu Wei Gao

John Kennedy

Aiden J. Ball

Amy Zhang

FALL 2001

SPRI 2002

Doug Yovanovich

Stephen Hui

Ian Rocksborough-S.

Karl Yu

SPRI 2002

SUMM 2002

Ben Pearson

D'Arcy Saum

Ian Rocksborough-S.

Amy Zhang

N/A

Tom Crute

SUMM 2002

FALL 2002

Sarom Bahk

Erin Ashenhurst

David W. McLeish

Ben Pearson

Ian R.S. (2nd time)

Scott Wright

Josh Devins

FALL 2002

SPRI 2003

Elisa Kosonen

Tejpal Swatch

Alisa Voznaya

Rhianna Coppin

SPRI 2003

SUMM 2003

Pearson (2nd time)

David Wilson McLeish

Stephen Thompson

Ayanna Parker

N/A

Shawn Hunsdale

Laden Mohammadi

SUMM 2003

FALL 2003

Shawn Hunsdale

Stephen Thompson

Gao (2nd time)

Zhang (2nd time)

Sabine Boersch

Mark Little

*Greg Lam

FALL 2003

SPRI 2004

Nicole Vanderwyst

Matthew Schum

SPRI 2004

SUMM 2004

Mark Little

*Amanda McCuaig

Nicole Vanderwyst

Sarah Caufield

Dock Currie

Sabine Boersch

N/A

James Lee

*Warren Haas

SUMM 2004

FALL 2004

Steven A. Reddy

FALL 2004

SPRI 2005

Dan Pinese

Michael Hingston

David W. McLeish

Peter Worden

Little (2nd time)

SPRI 2005

SUMM 2005

Michael Hingston

*Daniel Neufeld

Mayana Slobodian

Agnes Gulbinowicz

Debby Reis

N/A

Dock Currie

*Justin Mah

SUMM 2005

FALL 2005

Jennifer Hardwick

FALL 2005

SPRI 2006

Agnes Gulbinowicz

Amanda McCuaig

Kevin Lalonde

Currie (2nd time)

Warren Haas

SPRI 2006

SUMM 2006

Derrick Harder

McCuaig (2nd time)

*Ricardo Bortolon

Justin Mah

Jennifer Hardwick

N/A

Curtis Lassam

Monica Rudd

SUMM 2006

FALL 2006

Hingston (2nd time)

Earl Von Tapia

Gregg Whitlock

Kellen Powell

Anna Kresina

FALL 2006

SPRI 2007

Alex Taylor

Stephanie Orford

Warren Haas

SPRI 2007

SUMM 2007

Iain W. Reeve

N/A

Andy Fang

SUMM 2007

FALL 2007

Stephanie Orford

Amy Gibson

Shara Lee

Michael Hingston

Paul Hiebert

Chad Klassen

FALL 2007

SPRI 2008

Maia Britt Odegaard

SPRI 2008

SUMM 2008

Bryn Hewko

Deanne Beattie

J.J. McCullough

Maia Britt Odegaard

N/A

Stacey McLachlan

SUMM 2008

FALL 2008

Maia Britt Odegaard

Sam Norris

Shara Lee

Klassen (2nd time)

FALL 2008

SPRI 2009

Graham Templeton

Stacey McLachlan

John Morrison III

SPRI 2009

SUMM 2009

Kendra Wong

Adam Cristobal

N/A

SUMM 2009

FALL 2009

Matt Lee

Fraser Nelson

FALL 2009

SPRI 2010

SPRI 2010

SUMM 2010

Kendra Wong

David Proctor

Fang (2nd time)

SUMM 2010

FALL 2010

Erica Zell

Clinton Hallahan

FALL 2010

SPRI 2011

Kelly Thoreson

Colin Sharp

SPRI 2011

SUMM 2011

Adam Cristobal

Bai Yin

SUMM 2011

FALL 2011

David Dyck

Adam Ovenell-Carter

Mark Burnham

FALL 2011

SPRI 2012

Esther Tung

Clinton Hallahan

Gary Lim

SPRI 2012

SUMM 2012

William Ross

Colin Sharp

Benedict Reiners

Ljudmila Petrovic

N/A

SUMM 2012

FALL 2012

April Alayon

Graham Cook

Daryn Wright

Rachel Braeuer

Bryan Scott

FALL 2012

SPRI 2013

Allison Roach

SPRI 2013

SUMM 2013

Estefania Duran

Tara Nykyforiak

Rachel Braeuer

N/A

Brad McLeod

Vaikunthe Banerjee

SUMM 2013

FALL 2013

Max Hill

O-Carter (2nd time)

Burnham (2nd time)

FALL 2013 -

SPRI 2014

Natasha Wahid

Leah Bjornson

*Joel Mackenzie

SPRI 2014-

SUMM 2014

Tessa Perkins

N/A

Anderson Wang

SUMM 2014

FALL 2014

Rachelle Tjahyana

Adam van der Zwan

Austin Cozicar

Jacey Gibb

FALL 2014

SPRI 2015

Max Hill

Brandon T. Hillier

SPRI 2015

SUMM 2015

Joel Mackenzie

Melissa Roach

none

N/A

Phoebe Lim

SUMM 2015

SEMESTER

COPY

PRODUCTION

NEWS

ARTS

OPINIONS

FEATURES

SPORTS

HUMOR

PHOTO

SEMESTER

*Justin Joy Thomas served as news editor for part of the spring 1995 semester prior to Thomas Brasserur and then Kris Karlsson.
* Keith Ton served as photo editor for part of the spring 1995 semester prior to Mike Dutton's second term
* Yu Wei Gao served as production editor for part of the 2004 summer semester, prior to Amanda McCuaig.
* Dan Pinese served as news editor for part of the 2005 summer semester, prior to Daniel Neufeld.
* Kevin Tilley served as news editor for part of the 2006 summer semester, prior to Ricardo Bortolon.
* Josh Devins served as photo editor (for the second time) for part of the 2003 fall semester, prior to Greg Lam.
* Knesha Yu served as photo editor for part of the 2004 summer semester, prior to Warren Haas.
* Aki Mimoto served as photo editor for part of the 2005 summer semester, prior to Justin Mah.
* Joel Mackenzie assumed the position of opinions editor from Tara Nykyforiak in the last part of the fall 2013 semester.

For one semester (Summer, 1995) Tom Lakovic was copy editor and production editor at the same time.

At the end of the Spring 2004 summer semester, every single editor either changed positions or left The Peak.

ANALYSIS.

The record for longest continuously-serving editor at The Peak
is a tie between Bryn Hewko (Production, Summer 2008 - Summer 2011) and
Graham Templeton (Opinions, Spring 2009 - Spring 2012) who both served
nine continuous semesters.

The longest serving individual at The Peak, accounting for
multiple positions held at different times, is Mason Wright, who served
12 nonconsecutive semesters (four years) in various positions between 1996 and 2001.
Second place is Andy Fang, who served 10 total semesters (just over three years) during his two
terms as Photo Editor (2007-2011).

Glen Callender is probably the longest-serving Peak person of the modern era, however. He worked at The Peak, in some form or another, for over seven years, from 1993 to 2000, mostly in positions that are not recorded on this chart.